Fire levels Billerica home

BILLERICA -- A Billerica house built by its homeowner at the turn of this century is a total loss after a two-alarm fire leveled it on Thursday afternoon.

Nobody in the five-person Annese family was at 10 Estey Road when the fire started, and the cause is unknown, according to Deputy Chief Tom Ferraro.

Firefighters received a call from the next-door neighbor at 2:08 p.m., and they arrived at 2:10 p.m. to a fully-engulfed house, Ferraro said. There was heavy fire on the first and second floors; the only part that didn't have heavy fire was the garage.

"They had good water pressure but not a lot of volume, so they had trouble gaining enough volume to put the fire out," Ferraro said.

"But again, I can't emphasize that when they got here, the house was fully involved."

The building commissioner will condemn the house, and the rest that's standing will have to be torn down for safety purposes. Only a motorcycle and tools in the garage survived, Ferraro said.

It was a massive and beautiful house right on the Carlisle line, according to Fire Chief Thomas Conway.

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